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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1955
Page
4
The city council debates clothing allowances for police and firemen as officers claim damage costs and behavior differs between duties. Firemen seek similar treatment to police, noting many comparable cities grant allowances. Council delays, weighing taxpayer costs and precedent for other city workers.
The Ford Foundation will award grants ranging from 100000 to 1000000 dollars to about fifty to one hundred colleges and universities to boost faculty pay. Institutions must match the aid, aiming to total 100 million dollars in salary increases and improve teaching quality.
German Army Sergeant Charles E. Davis and his wife adopted a German orphan and continue aiding homeless children in Germany through unofficial Army relief. They report success in raising support via donations, with help from Bonn government, Lutheran Church in America, and Care.
State motor vehicle records show May riots 57 traffic fatalities nationwide, with Kenosha county reporting four May deaths. Local items include J. M. Herrmann re elected State Eagles secretary, C H Walter to attend NEA convention, Fred E. Rothermel elected Kenosha Typographical Union president, and officers named Miller Wegner and Earle. Six pilots enter Kenosha aviation contest for the Evening News medal. 4 H leader Mildred Gillmore to Washington camp. Public farmers markets to resume with first market on Tuesday. Cigar dealers vow to enforce new Wisconsin law. City faces burglary spree with weak police, mayor orders shooting prowlers on sight. Kenosha Elks seek new quarters away from the Dewey building.
Washington reports pollution threatens water resources as population and industry rise. Public Health Service officials cite rising per capita use, increased industrial demand, and costly purification needs, with detergents and synthetic wastes complicating treatment nationwide.
Dr Edwin P Jordan notes stuttering begins in early childhood and can worsen if parents react with irritation. Early intelligent management helps. many experts and centers offer help. Aimed at parents, the piece urges action and cites organizations and a booklet for guidance.
Quiz style lines cover race superiority theory, fly vision, Tannhauser, Alamo siege, White House occupants, and Drogheda contest for a town song. Answers note Nordic descent claim, fly facets, Wagner minstrel, Alamo, Van Buren Harrison Tyler, Drogheda contest.
Ruth Millett argues that procrastination makes chores harder and relationships strained. She lists writing letters hospitality apologies quarrels and dieting as tasks that worsen the longer they are delayed.
The article surveys thunder gods in Greek Chinese and Norse myth plus how thunder is formed. It explains that lightning causes air expansion and contraction creating thunder and notes shelter from storms is wise. It adds how rolling thunder arises from distant echoes and multiple sound sources.
A 33 year study by Dr. Lewis M. terman reexamines shy lonely youths in the genius IQ 140 plus group. Non scientists often score higher in social relations than scientists, with lawyers and social science majors highest and engineers lowest. The piece urges guarding free press as essential to democracy and notes aging increases in life expectancy, with mental power persisting though speed declines.
A humorous column details a novice photographer failing at composition and technique. The writer jokily laments misframed shots with subjects off the frame, faulty film development, and awkward camera loading, while considering basket weaving as an alternative craft. Pakistan announces a three year plan to improve air transport safety speed and cost.
A light column mocks women with wrinkles as lines of resistance and jokes about men's summer suits carrying junk. City cousins retaliate for winter visits as aging concerns surface. An attendant in a boxing ring is injured when he falls into a ring post, causing a cut forehead in a split second.
The Hague reports the Netherlands became the world’s largest per capita purchaser of American agricultural goods in 1954, with total purchases valued at 181 million dollars.
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